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03/10/2010
They Did Authorize Torture, But …
David Cole
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03/09/2010
Britain: The Disgrace of the Universities
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03/08/2010
The New Tower of London
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03/05/2010
How to Greet the Dalai Lama
Robert Barnett
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03/05/2010
How They Killed the Economy
By Roger E. Alcaly
Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions ...
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03/05/2010
Fly High & Fall
By Benedetta Craveri
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de ...
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03/05/2010
The Way to Stop Prison Rape
By David Kaiser
As three recent studies by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics ...
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03/05/2010
The Wizard
By Daniel Mendelsohn
Avatar
a film directed by James Cameron
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03/04/2010
Kashmir: "The World's Most Dangerous Place"
Pankaj Mishra
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03/04/2010
Slide Show: Hakawati Self-Portraits
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03/04/2010
The Anger of Exile
By Colm Tóibín
The Hakawati
by Rabih Alameddine
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03/03/2010
At the Tea Party
By Jonathan Raban
People who watched the Tea Party Convention in Nashville on ...
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03/03/2010
The Hero Pose
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03/02/2010
Austenolatry
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03/02/2010
Gogol Haunts the New Ukraine
By Timothy Snyder
Viktor Yanukovych, seen five years ago as the vote-stealing villain ...
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03/01/2010
Himmler's Favorite Jew
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03/01/2010
Slide Show: New York, Moody City
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02/26/2010
Aalto Survives Geopolitics
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02/24/2010
A Fascist Hero in Democratic Kiev
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02/23/2010
Edge People
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02/22/2010
Death List, Poem
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02/19/2010
How Iran Became a "Nuclear State"
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02/19/2010
A Bouquet of Science
By Jeremy Bernstein
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
edited by ...
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02/19/2010
The Gambler
By Nathaniel Rich
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
by Mitchell ...
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02/19/2010
What Babies Know and We Don't
By Michael Greenberg
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About ...
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02/19/2010
Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
By Jason Epstein
The transition within the book publishing industry from physical ...
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02/18/2010
House Life in a Koolhaas
Martin Filler
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02/17/2010
Locked Out: Beijing's Border Abuse Exposed
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02/17/2010
The Rape of American Prisoners
By David Kaiser
Summary Report for Administrative Review
by Tish ...
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02/16/2010
David Levine: An Audio Portrait
In September 2008, fifteen months before he died, David Levine met with New ...
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02/15/2010
Is There Life in Health Care Reform?
By Elizabeth Drew
In politics, as in life, there's often a very fine line between a ...
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02/12/2010
Salinger
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02/11/2010
Russia's New Media Paradox
Maxim Trudolyubov
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02/04/2010
The "Devastating" Decision
By Ronald Dworkin
Against the opposition of their four colleagues, five right-wing ...
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02/04/2010
Port-au-Prince: The Moment
By Mischa Berlinski
My chair was on casters and began to roll. A large earthquake ...
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02/04/2010
A Knife at the Door
By Francine Prose
Lit: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
In an ...
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02/04/2010
In the World of Facebook
By Charles Petersen
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale ...
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02/02/2010
The Google Books Settlement: An Exchange with the Authors Guild
By Roy Blount, Jr.
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02/01/2010
The Warhol Foundation on Trial
By Joel Wachs
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02/01/2010
A Deal with the Taliban?
By Ahmed Rashid
My Life with the Taliban
by Abdul Salam Zaeef, translated ...
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01/21/2010
Podcast: Cathleen Schine on How Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
Cathleen Schine speaks with Sasha Weiss about Gail Collins's book When Everything Changed: The ...
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12/10/2009
Podcast: Charles Wright Reads Selected Sestets and Other Poems
Charles Wright reads from his recent collection, Sestets, and talks to Sasha Weiss about the ...
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12/01/2009
Podcast: Andrew O'Hagan on Samuel Johnson
Andrew O'Hagan talks to Sasha Weiss about Samuel Johnson's various and contradictory character, how ...
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11/18/2009
Podcast: Joost Hiltermann on Iraq on the Edge
Joost Hiltermann speaks with Nathan Thrall about the political crisis facing Iraq as it prepares ...
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11/11/2009
Podcast: Chris Jordan on Midway Atoll and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Photographer and activist Chris Jordan speaks with Eve Bowen about his recent photographs, taken at ...
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Boston Globe -- Book reviews
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03/09/2010
Doc Ford is inspiration for author’s saucy ambitions
SANIBEL, Fla. - Randy Wayne White walks into Doc Ford’s Sanibel Rum Bar & Grille, around ...
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03/09/2010
Dark comedy and dispirited light
Sam Lipsyte’s way with words is exceptional, his ability to turn a phrase dazzling. But in ...
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03/09/2010
A new way of thinking about social networks and the world
Our social networks and where we sit in them set the course for much of what happens in our lives, ...
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03/08/2010
Mark Linkous, at 47; songwriter led Sparklehorse
Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has ...
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03/08/2010
Authors answer the call
Gavin Grant and Kelly Link run Small Beer Press, a small independent press in Easthampton. When ...
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03/08/2010
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03/08/2010
Letters of sorrow
“Dear Mrs. Kennedy: I wish to extend to you and the children my condolences. . . . We are ...
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03/07/2010
Discoveries abound in this debut novel set in Japan
If you read a lot of debut fiction, there’s a subgenre you eventually come to dread: the ...
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03/06/2010
Using loss as a starting point
Brad Watson was born in Meridian, Miss., and worked at various jobs, from journalist to garbage ...
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03/06/2010
Humor in the human condition
The expression “great comic novel” attached to a title usually causes me to drop ...
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03/06/2010
Cartoony cats, marvelous myths
Mo Willems has created not one but three brilliantly comic, Caldecott Honor picture books: ...
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03/06/2010
Winner’s circle
Two books of fiction - one set in Poland, the other in Saudi Arabia - spanning the 50 years after ...
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03/06/2010
Go ask Alice
“Nobody can now be blamed,” writes Jenny Woolf, “for failing to understand the ...
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03/06/2010
Oh God! That’s one heck of a story.
The phrase “God told me to’’ is an excuse people offer for all sorts of behavior ...
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03/06/2010
Bookings
TODAY: William Bulger discusses “James Michael Curley,” 3-4:30 p.m., Book Ends, 559 ...
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03/06/2010
Call for new kind of storytelling that’s not so new
“I’m not a big believer in major epiphanies,” David Shields writes in ...
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03/06/2010
Before their time
It’s easy to see why some of these stories of Kurt Vonnegut from the 1950s might have been ...
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03/06/2010
Short Takes
A female fighter pilot survives a bizarre crash near the Potomac; an Iranian nuclear scientist ...
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03/06/2010
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03/06/2010
Land of the free, home of some knaves
Henry Cejudo cheerfully admits that he was “a Mexican gang mascot.” Wrestling began to ...
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03/06/2010
Casualties of war
In the middle of the “The Surrendered,’’ but early on in its chronology, a ...
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03/05/2010
A veteran writer’s fond memories
In the poignant title essay of this collection, John McPhee recalls a toy his mother bought him at ...
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03/04/2010
Chronicles of the Great Books
The Great Books are coming to Massachusetts. The C.S. Lewis Foundation, which recently purchased a ...
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03/04/2010
A look at pioneers of forensic science
Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer, describes the foundations of forensic ...
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03/03/2010
200 years of shared knowledge
SALEM - Jean Marie Procious brings an uncommonly personal touch to her work as a librarian. She ...
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03/03/2010
Picoult keys on a teen with Asperger’s
Jacob Hunt is startlingly verbal and blisteringly intelligent. The 18-year-old has an uncanny ...
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03/02/2010
The perfect tomato may be in the garden, outside science
Not every revolution has its Bastille Day, that discrete moment when some numerically significant ...
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02/27/2010
Through the looking glass
LOS ANGELES - This is how the young actress starring in “Alice in Wonderland’’ ...
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02/27/2010
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02/26/2010
There's something about 'Alice'
By age 19, Emily Montaglione had read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’’ ...
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02/26/2010
Famous lines from ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’
‘Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,’ thought Alice; ‘but a grin ...
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02/06/2010
You can keep your Holden Caulfield
It’s not polite to speak ill of the dead. Would it be a problem, though, if I spoke ill of ...
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02/04/2010
Salinger, the movie
By morbid coincidence, a Hollywood filmmaker completed a full-length documentary about the life of ...
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02/01/2010
His love affair with ‘Esmé’
Upon learning that J.D. Salinger died last week, I immediately reread “For Esmé - With ...
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01/29/2010
Salinger’s solitude, their source of pride
The word recluse became almost an honorific when J.D. Salinger moved here more than a half-century ...
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01/06/2010
For armchair gardeners pining for spring
January and February are the reading months for gardeners trapped indoors. Here are some of the ...
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05/08/2009
Solving mystery of finding readers
Once, Seth Harwood intended to get his novel published the old-fashioned way: Get the pedigree, ...
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London Review of Books
Literary review publishing essay-length book reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science and the arts by leading writers and thinkers
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03/10/2010
John Lanchester: A Very Good Election to Lose
The government has to cut the deficit. That involves raising taxes and cutting spending. The ...
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03/10/2010
Christopher Tayler: Clive James
Clip show presenter, chat-show host, star of a series of travel documentaries, essayist, lyricist: ...
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03/10/2010
Conor Gearty: Human Rights Law
If the first legitimate worry about a social democratic bill of rights would be an explosion of ...
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03/10/2010
Peter Campbell: ‘Crash’
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03/10/2010
Adam Shatz: The Short Career of Amy Bishop
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03/10/2010
Letters
The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 32 issue 5
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03/10/2010
Table of contents
Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 32 issue 5
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